| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: FRENCHMAN.]
The worst fault which divines and the doctors of the Sorbonne can
allege against it is, that if there is but a capfull of wind in or
about Paris, 'tis more blasphemously SACRE DIEU'D there than in any
other aperture of the whole city, - and with reason good and
cogent, Messieurs; for it comes against you without crying GARDE
D'EAU, and with such unpremeditable puffs, that of the few who
cross it with their hats on, not one in fifty but hazards two
livres and a half, which is its full worth.
The poor notary, just as he was passing by the sentry,
instinctively clapp'd his cane to the side of it, but in raising it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: would be the best of fellows, if he did not always speak the truth,
but I think we really admired him all the more for his frankness.
I found him a good deal changed. He looked anxious and puzzled,
and seemed to be in doubt about something. I felt it could not be
modern scepticism, for Murchison was the stoutest of Tories, and
believed in the Pentateuch as firmly as he believed in the House of
Peers; so I concluded that it was a woman, and asked him if he was
married yet.
'I don't understand women well enough,' he answered.
'My dear Gerald,' I said, 'women are meant to be loved, not to be
understood.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: hath forbidden him Paradise, and his resort is the Fire, and the
unjust shall have none to help them.
They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the third of three;' for
there is no God but one, and if they do not desist from what they say,
there shall touch those who misbelieve amongst them grievous woe.
Will they not turn again towards God and ask pardon of Him? for
God is forgiving and merciful.
The Messiah the son of Mary is only a prophet: prophets before him
have passed away; and his mother was a confessor; they used both to
eat food.- See how we explain to them the signs, yet see how they turn
aside!
The Koran |
